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Fråga-Svar Tjetjenien/Ukraina. OMON Och Tjetjenska Specialförband I 2015-05-04 Fråga-svar Tjetjenien/Ukraina. OMON och tjetjenska specialförband i Ukraina. Fråga • Finns det någon information om OMON:s verksamhet i Tjetjenien under perioden 2008-2011? Har myndigheten inom ramen för sin verksamhet begått kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter? • Finns det någon information om huruvida Kadyrov rekryterar individer tillhörande specialförband för att tjänstgöra som soldater i Ukraina? Svar Lifos anmärkning: Omon är inte en självständig myndighet utan en beteckning som används för diverse specialstyrkor som sorterar under polisen. Sammanlagt handlar det om 100-tals olika enheter. Skall man försöka hitta en motsvarighet inom svensk polisorganisation är nog det närmaste man kan komma piketpolis. Frågan om OMONs verksamhet i Tjetjenien blir därmed svår att besvara då det skulle kunna avse 100-tals olika enheter varav de flesta aldrig har varit i närheten av Tjetjenien. De OMON-enheter som för närvarande är aktiva i Tjetjenien sorterar nästan uteslutande under det tjetjenska inrikesdepartementet och är således ”lokala” OMON-styrkor. Finns det någon information om OMON:s verksamhet i Tjetjenien under perioden 2008-2011? Har myndigheten inom ramen för sin verksamhet begått kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter? Flera NGOs har rapporterat om det uppmärksammade försvinnandet av Islam Umarpashayev. Human Right Watch (HRW) är en av huvudkällorna och beskriver vad som hände hösten 2009. HRW (2011): On December 11, 2009, Islam Umarpashaev was forcibly disappeared, when he was abducted from his home in Chechnya and Sida 1 av 11 held in incommunicado detention until his release on April 2, 2010. During his detention, he was subjected to torture and other forms of cruel and inhuman treatment. Umarpashaev alleges that he was held at the headquarters of the Chechen Special Task Police Force (OMON) and has described being handcuffed to a radiator for the first three months of his detention, beaten, threatened, and deprived of food on a regular basis. I en rapport av Danish Immigration Service (DIS) framgår ytterligare detaljer om vad som hände, även det ursprungligen berättat av HRW. DIS (2011): When he refused, the OMON unit decided to make him a “fake suicide bomber”. That is when law enforcement officials allegedly keep a person until he grows a beard and long hair to resemble the members of the illegal armed groups living in the forest and mountains. At some point the captive will be killed and left in the forests, only to be “discovered” by law enforcement officials claiming the body to be a dead rebel killed in a successful anti terrorism operation. (s. 60) Efter Umarpashayevs frigivning rapporterar HRW att efterspelet präglats av hot från OMON. HRW (2011): However, soon afterwards, on August 17, 2010, a witness protection officer assigned to Umarpashaev and his family facilitated a meeting between a Chechen OMON commander and Umarpashaev's father and brother. According to them, the commander threatened them with severe reprisals unless they could convince Islam Umarpashaev to withdraw his complaint. --- The Joint Mobile Group and Novaya Gazeta, a leading independent Russian newspaper, reported that at a ministerial meeting in February 2011 in Grozny where the case was discussed, the head of the Chechen OMON threatened that if investigators tried to enter OMON premises, he would order his officers to open fire. Both the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya and the key Russian military base, Khankala, refused the investigators' requests for armed escorts to the OMON premises, allegedly for fear of possible bloodshed. Eventually, the investigation team secured the assistance of officers from the Chechnya investigative committee's own security service and were able to enter the OMON headquarters, accompanied by Umarpashaev and a representative of the Mobile Group, who participated at their own risk. Only one OMON servicemen was present on the premises but Umarpashaev identified him as one of the officers who had mistreated him when he was confined there. Currently, the investigation is seeking to interrogate all of the OMON servicemen and to enable Umarpashaev to identify other possible perpetrators. DIS (2011): HRW considered that since then the investigation has been acting in an effective and professional manner, but none of the involved OMON servicemen have given evidence despite official summons. The head of OMON in Chechnya has explicitly threatened the Russian federal investigator on his life should he come close to the OMON facility. (s. 60) I en senare rapport av DIS (2015) konstateras: An ICG analyst in Moscow referred to the investigation into the murder of human rights activist Natahlia Estemirova and the investigation into the case of Umarpashaev, who was illegally detained by the Chechen OMON as illustrative of the complete impunity enjoyed by Chechen OMON and other police units close to Kadyrov. Both cases have been transferred for investigation outside of the Chechen Republic. (s. 18) Ytterligare två personer sägs ha varit frihetsberövade av OMON under samma period som Umarpashayev. Reuters (2011): Two people Umarpashayev says were imprisoned with him are still missing, and rights activists say they fear one is dead and the other has fled abroad. Memorial says its figures may show only a quarter of the true scale of abuses because many Chechens have feared coming forward since one of the group's leading campaigners, Natalia Estemirova, was shot dead hours after being abducted in 2009. I en intervju konstaterar Igor Kalyapin, chef på Committee Against Torture, att rädsla för repressalier förhindrar att brott begångna av bland andra OMON undersöks. Open Democracy (2011): Midway through the 2000s the carte blanche for carrying out illegal violence was gradually transferred from the Feds to the representatives of local defence and law enforcement agencies, which were controlled by Kadyrov. As a consequence, four years ago we [Committee Against Torture] began to receive complaints about the new Kadyrov policemen, rather than the Feds. Each time the staff in our Chechen division told me that the suspects were people answering to one of three men: Deputy Adam Delimkhanov, Deputy Chairman of the Government Magomed Daudov, or the head of OMON (special services), Alikhan Tsakayev. Each time they told me it had been made clear that if they took up these cases, they and their relatives would be intimidated, tortured and murdered. Committee Against Tortures regionala grupp i Tjetjenien, Joint Mobile Group (JMG), har även undersökt andra övergrepp som tillskrivs OMON. Front Line Defenders (2012): The JMG has also received information regarding two new cases in which members and commanders of the Chechen OMON are suspects. One of these cases concerns the illegal detention and brutal torture by policemen of employees of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry of the Chechen Republic. Andra incidenter som hittats har inte gått att belägga genom olika källor utan nämns enstaka gånger. Caucasian Knot (2008): On July 23 in Gudermes, OMON (Special Militia) fighters of the Chechen MIA beat and detained several dozens of women who gathered at the countryside residence of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov with intent to ask him for help. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from an anonymous source who talked to one of the participants of the action. Den tjetjenska nyhetssajten Kavkaz Center hänvisar till en lokal tidning som beskrivit hur en finno-urgisk man misshandlats och skalperats av OMON- styrkor. Kavkaz Center (2011): Russian soldiers from the gang of "Perm OMON squad" committed another racial crime … According to the newspaper, "Local Time", riot police has brutally beaten a local resident Oleg Bychkov, and then took off his scalp while he was still alive. As a result, the Finn has died. The crime was committed at the end of July, but was not disclosed until now. Inrikesministeriet i Perm avvisar påståendena som nonsens (Ura.ru, 2011). Norska Landinfo skriver i en rapport att det finns många rapporter om olovliga bortföranden men att det i många fall är svårt att veta vilka säkerhetsstrukturer som är inblandade. Landinfo (2014): European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT 2013) besøkte offisielle anholdelsessteder og varetektsfengsler i Tsjetsjenia (og Dagestan) på en reise til regionen i april/mai 2011. De intervjuet også flere varetektsfengslede. I rapporten beskrives et par tilfeller17 fra Tsjetsjenia (fra 2010 og 2011) der de aktuelle personene ble pågrepet og ført til steder de ikke kunne identifisere (i ett av tilfellene dreide det seg om et privat hus), for så å bli mishandlet (slag og elektrisitet ble brukt). Etter noen dager ble de ført til lovlige anholdelsessteder. Disse eksemplene stemmer overens med tidligere informasjon Landinfo har fått om at personer pågripes, føres til et uoffisielt anholdelsessted, utsettes for mishandling for å presse frem en tilståelse, for deretter å bli ført til et lovlig anholdelsessted.18 Flere kilder Landinfo intervjuet i Moskva i november 2012, var av den oppfatning at disse ulovlige anholdelsesstedene trolig er lokalene til ulike sikkerhetsstrukturer, som etter loven ikke har rett til å holde eller avhøre personer, men kun pågripe i kraft av å være organer som overholder samfunnsorden. Organer som ble nevnt som trolig holder personer ulovlig var OMON, PPSM-2, Neftepolk (Milashina, møte i Moskva november 2012; Inter-regional Committee Against Torture, møte i Moskva
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